Community

Community is at the heart of NACIS: the personal connections our members build with each other are what keep our organization strong and relevant. Our Annual Meeting offers a chance to reconnect with old friends and to make new ones. Our forum, CartoTalk, lets you trade ideas with designers from around the world. Our publications are a chance to see what your colleagues have been up to lately. NACIS is about building opportunities for collaboration, so that we can all be better at what we do, and have more fun doing it.

Note: membership and affiliated company lists are only visible to logged in NACIS members. If you’d like to join the community, take a look at our Become a Member page.

Society Leadership

We have a dedicated board and group of volunteers that continue to make NACIS a well-oiled machine beyond the Annual Meeting. You can learn more about each individual on our people page. On these pages you can also learn more about our mission, bylaws, and meeting notes.

* Header photo from the 2014 Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, PA

Adventure Cycling Association

Adventure Cycling Association’s mission is to inspire people to travel by bicycle. One of the ways we do this is to produce route maps for both road bike and mountain bike touring. The Routes and Mapping Department has published over 25,000 miles of mapped routes and is continually adding to and updating our National Bicycle Route Network. We also design and produce bicycling-related custom maps for government agencies, organizations and events.

Benchmark Maps

Benchmark Maps’ cartographers have been building outstanding, award-winning maps for the past several decades. We are a small company, located in beautiful southern Oregon. Our staff of cartographers take pride in their credentials and skills in working to create some of the finest maps of the day.
The cartographers are perhaps known best for working on Raven maps and Benchmark Road and Recreation atlases of western states. We also build maps for a number of government agencies, energy companies, and a diverse client list which includes architects, city planners, book publishers, 3D model makers, and–a fine compliment–other cartographers.

CartographerOnline

We provide custom maps and graphics primarily for scholarly and educational publications, but all inquiries for cartographic services are welcome. All formats such as PDF, EPS, JPEG, or TIFF can be produced and the maps can be in black and white or color.

Preliminary estimates and consultation are free. Sample maps similar to your needs are available on request as high resolution PDF e-mail attachments.

Cartographic Consultants

Cartographic Consultants provides geographic research, map compilation and design specializing in map editing for the educational market. We have an extensive library of reference sources and experience with publishers in designing curriculum materials and providing editorial direction.

George Stoll Maps

Over 20 years of experience in digital map production for both web and print, based on a solid foundation of traditional cartographic experience from topographic mapping for government organizations to reference and thematic mapping for the publishing industry.

Expertise in the development and production of maps in a wide range of fields such as:
reference
thematic
historical
topographic and recreational
travel and location

Hedberg Maps, Inc.

Hedberg Maps has been making maps for more than 20 years. Our slogan says it all: “Life’s too short for bad maps”. Let us make a map for you – a good one! Print and digital with an emphasis on creative problem-solving.

INCase, LLC

INCase, LLC is an editorial and design group with a specialty in maps. With 25 years experience making maps, designing publications, and writing and editing text for a wide variety of clients, our goal is to “make sense” out of confusing topics and geographies. Cartographically, we specialize in maps of places: large-scale representations of urban centers, neighborhoods, campuses, historic areas, parks, etc. We make maps that reinforce and inform people’s connection to the places they are. We also generally love research and design challenges, both historical and present-day, and delight in making underlying geodata accessible and comprehensible.

International Mapping Associates

International Mapping Associates provides custom mapping and geographic consulting services for government and commercial clients. We have complete research, design and production capabilities to create maps, 3D Landscapes, and information graphics for static and dynamic media. We also specialize in geographic boundary research and analysis.

Jake Coolidge Cartography

I’m a Chicago-based cartographer, geographer, and artist. I specialize in guide maps, navigational maps, thematic maps for scholarly publications, and large-format hand-drawn maps. I enjoy working with clients to provide unique and striking custom maps to suit their needs.

Map Design Studio

Map Design Studio is a small cartography shop founded in 2014 by me, Aaron Taveras. I primarily focus on print and web map design, and have a special interest in alpine and outdoor recreation cartography. Aside from maps I also work on other forms of visual communication, such as branding, editorial design, and simple web solutions.

Mapping Solution

For over 30 years, Mapping Solutions has produced conventional and GIS maps, graphics, and imagery as powerful tools that can greatly enhance projects, reports, publications, and presentations. Mapping Solutions products have been used for modeling, analyzing, and displaying spatial data and information that are critical for problem solving, decision making, and management. Their work has taken them through most of the world s oceans from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, across the Pacific and Atlantic, around the Pacific Rim and Caribbean, into the Arctic and Antarctic, to East and Southeast Asia, and throughout the Mediterranean
Mapping Solutions can create custom maps and graphics for legal analysis and courtroom display, environmental assessment and problem solving, spatial analysis of various data, event and facility management, transportation and parking planning, sales and marketing analysis, museum and exhibit display, intelligent signage and way-finding, book and report publication, and multi-lingual needs. Besides creating custom maps, they teach cartography, map reading, GIS, and GPS; research and provide analytical reports on a variety of issues; produce multimedia presentations on diverse topics, lecture on a multitude of subjects, author and publish in many venues, develop curriculum in GIS, GPS and mapping, use photography for documentation of environmental and cultural change, and consult with clients about mapping, GIS, and other needs.

Maps.com

Maps.com has been a leading provider of mapping products and solutions for business, education, and consumer markets since 1991. We specialize in creating accurate, aesthetically pleasing street maps, travel maps, and textbook maps for a variety of clients and agencies. While our focus is on these map genres we are capable of creating just about any style or scope of cartographic project. In addition to custom cartography, Maps.com also offers services such as Classified Concepts (http://www.classifiedconcepts.com/) and Maps101 (http://www.maps101.com/). Our company of 35 employees is located 10 miles west of picturesque Santa Barbara, CA if you happen to be in the neighborhood please feel free to stop by and pay us a visit.

Purple Lizard Maps LLC

Michael Hermann is an award-winning cartographer with a diverse background designing recreational maps, street maps, campus maps, signage and wayfinding, interpretive media, information design, historic atlas design, and educational cartography. Michael is a former corporate and academic cartographer who currently focuses on his own firm, Purple Lizard Maps, which he founded in 1997. Purple Lizard designs and publishes recreational maps. Michael is a past-President and former board member of NACIS.

Red Geographics

Red Geographics operates in the fields of GIS (Geographic Information Systems), geographical data, Spatial ETL, 3D visualisation and digital cartography, offering consultancy and training, performing data translation and transformation services as well as creating both 2D and 3D maps and visualisations. Our goal is to help our clients optimize the way they work with geographical data and information, thereby increasing gains from using this information. In addition to these services, we are also a distributor of several software products aimed at the GIS/Cartography market, such as FME, MAPublisher and Visual Nature Studio.

XNR Productions Inc.

XNR Productions specializes in producing custom maps for publishers of textbooks, travel guides, reference materials, CD-ROMs, and internet applications. We offer a full range of services in cartography and illustration, including research/compilation, design, production, and editing.